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Identification of the ubiquitous Coriolis momentum pinch in JET tokamak plasmas

Weisen, H.
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Camenen, Y.
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Salmi, A.
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2012
Nuclear Fusion

A broad survey of the experimental database of neutral beam heated plasmas in the JET tokamak has established the theoretically expected ubiquity, in rotating plasmas, of a convective transport mechanism which has its origin in the vertical particle drift resulting from the Coriolis force. This inward convection, or pinch, leads to inward transport of toroidal angular momentum and is characterized by pinch numbers RV/chi(phi), which rise from near unity at r/a approximate to 0.25 to around 5 at r/a approximate to 0.85. Linear gyrokinetic calculations of the Coriolis pinch number and the Prandtl number chi(phi)/chi(i) are in good agreement with the experimental observations, with similar dependences on plasma parameters. The data, however, do not rule out contributions from different processes, such as residual stresses.

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DOI
10.1088/0029-5515/52/4/042001
Web of Science ID

WOS:000303671300001

Author(s)
Weisen, H.
Camenen, Y.
Salmi, A.
Versloot, T. W.
de Vries, P. C.
Maslov, M.
Tala, T.
Beurskens, M.
Giroud, C.
Date Issued

2012

Publisher

IOP Publishing Ltd

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Nuclear Fusion
Volume

52

Article Number

042001

Subjects

Rotation

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